ADHD and Me
A Reassuring Picture Book to Help Children Understand ADHD and Celebrate Who They Are
£11.99
Help your child understand ADHD with confidence, kindness, and a celebration of everything that makes them unique.
ADHD and Me: A Reassuring Picture Book to Help Children Understand ADHD and Celebrate Who They Are is a colourful, supportive ADHD picture book for children designed to help young readers understand what having an ADHD brain can mean in everyday life.
Through simple, child-friendly language and engaging illustrations, children discover that an ADHD brain can be busy, bright, energetic, creative and full of ideas. The book explores familiar experiences such as having lots of energy, fast-moving thoughts, becoming distracted, finding waiting difficult, experiencing big feelings, forgetting things, and facing challenges at school, home and with friends.
But this isn't a book that focuses only on difficulties.
Children are also introduced to hyperfocus, creativity, curiosity, bravery, problem-solving and their individual strengths. The message throughout is reassuring: having ADHD does not make a child bad, lazy or less capable. Their brain simply works in its own way.
The book also helps children discover practical supports that can make everyday life easier, including visual reminders, lists, timers, routines, quiet spaces, movement breaks and asking trusted adults for help.
Most importantly, children finish the story with a powerful message of acceptance:
Their ADHD brain is part of who they are. They are loved. They have value. They belong. And they can shine in their own way.
The book concludes with a dedicated Note for Parents and Carers, providing gentle questions adults can use to start meaningful conversations, such as “Which part feels like you?”, “What helps your brain feel calm?” and “What are you really good at?”
This reassuring children's ADHD book is ideal for families who want to:
Help a child understand an ADHD diagnosis
Explain ADHD using positive, age-appropriate language
Encourage self-esteem, confidence and self-acceptance
Talk about ADHD emotions, attention, hyperactivity and everyday challenges
Help children recognise their ADHD strengths
Introduce practical strategies for home and school
Encourage positive conversations between children, parents and carers
Celebrate neurodiversity and individual differences
Written by Maggie Tatfontu, a Social Work Consultant Practitioner whose career has included frontline social work and managing Child Protection and Fostering Teams in UK Local Authorities, the book grew from her experience of seeing children and families needing accessible resources to help explain what an ADHD diagnosis means.
A warm, colourful and strengths-based ADHD picture book for helping children understand their brains, feel good about who they are, and know that they are wonderful, loved and capable.